Clinical Nurse - Nursing Research Intensive Care

Join Our ICU Research Team in Princess Alexandra Hospital

Bring your intensive care expertise into a unique Nurse Research Clinical Nurse role where you'll help drive nurse-led research, support clinical innovation, and improve patient outcomes. Working alongside the Professor of Critical Care Nursing, you'll contribute to meaningful research while remaining connected to clinical practice.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced ICU Registered Nurse to develop specialist research expertise while contributing to evidence-based improvements in critical care. You'll work collaboratively with the Professor of Critical Care Nursing and the multidisciplinary ICU team to deliver high-quality, ethically sound research that makes a real difference to patient care.

In this role, you'll:

• Support nurse-led research projects from concept through to publication.
• Assist with literature reviews, ethics submissions, and research protocols.
• Coordinate data collection, clinical audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Promote evidence-based practice and research participation across the ICU.
• Provide clinical leadership while contributing to education and professional development within the team.

We're looking for an experienced Intensive Care Registered Nurse who combines strong clinical expertise with curiosity, attention to detail, and a passion for improving patient outcomes through research.

You'll bring:

• Strong critical thinking, clinical leadership, and communication skills.
• An interest in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
• Experience with clinical systems such as iEMR or MetaVision (highly regarded).
• A postgraduate qualification—or current enrolment—in a relevant field is highly desirable.

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• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is regarded as one of the leading adult tertiary specialist facilities in Australia. With 28 funded beds (26 ICU beds and 2 HDU beds) on average and over 2300 annual admissions, the ICU has the highest surgical throughput of any hospital in Australia and New Zealand.  All major adult specialities are provided except for burns and obstetrics.

The motivated multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists and speech pathologists work together to deliver a high standard of holistic patient-centred care.  University affiliation, active training programs and internationally recognised medical and nursing research contribute to advancement in intensive care practices and continuing staff development. The ICU endorses the Transition to Support Program– Adult Intensive Care which is a requirement for all new ICU employees without a post graduate qualification in Critical Care. The unit offers a culture of education, learning and support within the multi-disciplinary team. Combining innovative clinical practice and a supportive learning environment encourages and ensures that we promote excellence in patient and family care.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.